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Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: No apologies have been received. All those present in the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. The first business is to approve the minutes of the private and public meetings of 29 and 30 March 2023. Those minutes have already been approved in a virtual private meeting but we must do this now...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: On behalf of the committee, I extend a warm welcome to Dr. Colm Henry, chief clinical officer; Dr. Orla Healy, national clinical director of quality and patient safety; Dr. Michael O'Dwyer, national clinical lead for the sepsis programme; and Dr. Ciara Martin, national clinical adviser and group lead for young people, HSE. I extend a welcome to Mr. Joe Hughes and Karen Phoenix who are seated...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Before I let in others, I want to make a few points. Can we get to the issue of public awareness? It appears that the focus is on informing the medical community, which is highly important as well but which is not matched by a public awareness campaign. The targeted health programme is fine but there are another 11 months in the year besides September, which is sepsis month; sepsis is a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: I have no problem with the HSE going into the healthcare setting and making them aware but the committee spoke with Mr. Hughes the other day and the Hughes family did not know about sepsis up until that time. The public must be made aware of it and they may pick up on some of those signs before it gets to hospital stage. The Hughes family is going around voluntarily trying to make other...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: I want to ask one question before I let Deputy Devlin in. Are there certain symptoms that could be picked up easily enough by members of the public, if there was an awareness campaign, before going into a hospital setting? If someone was at home sick, are there obvious symptoms that people need to watch out for?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: I agree with Deputy Devlin in that we should maintain contact with the HSE. We are still in the process of trying to organise an awareness day in the audiovisual room, which we discussed at the previous meeting. We are all present in the complex and perhaps we will sort that out before the summer. I call Deputy Higgins.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Did Dr. O’Dwyer say there is an awareness video?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: I apologise that I have not recognised the importance of all the HSE representatives coming before the committee today. I acknowledge Mr. Joe Hughes and the Hughes family. I said it before the committee on the day Joe was in, I was pure ignorant of how serious sepsis is until we got the presentation and heard the human side of it, namely, whereby the family had lost someone. As others have...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Is there a breakdown of the ages of the nearly 12,000 people affected by sepsis in 2020? Are we saying that sepsis affects people right across the board or is there an indication that it is affecting certain age groups more than others?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Is there an indication of what the main causes may be for sepsis in hospital settings? Do overcrowding or staff shortages have an impact?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: A commitment was given in late 2019 in respect of awareness training. Was it on the advice of the HSE or that of the Department that it was decided this would not be followed through on? I appreciate what the witnesses have told us for the past hour or more about the campaigns the HSE is running, but there seems to have been a change since 2019 - it seemed to occur after a couple months -...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: I again thank Dr. Henry for showing us respect by bringing such a high-profile team with him. We all sit on committees, and it is hard to get people in to answer questions at times. I also extend a big thank you to Joe and Karen Hughes. It was under sad circumstances that this matter had to be highlighted, but they have, through this committee, really raised the awareness of sepsis both in...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank Dr. Healy, Dr. O'Dwyer and Dr. Martin. It has been very beneficial to the committee to have them in. We will suspend for five minutes to let the witnesses leave the room.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: The joint committee has six petitions for consideration. Petition No. 21 of 2021 entitled Taking in Charge is from Mr. Terence Coskeran and relates to a housing development. The committee recommends that Mr. Joe McGrath, chief executive of Tipperary County Council, be requested to report back to the committee on any progress made following the meeting with Uisce Éireann. I spoke to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: To be fair, the Tipperary County Council has worked hard to get the issue resolved, as has the committee. Petition No. 43 of 2021 on supporting to access to employment for non-European Economic Area, EEA, PhD students' spouses in Ireland is from Mr. Fernandos Ongolly. The secretariat corresponded with the Department of Justice on behalf of the petitioner. The Department replied and its...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Petition No. 36 of 2022 on reopening Ennis, Nenagh and St. John’s hospitals' emergency departments is from Ms Noeleen Moran. This petition, which was submitted on behalf of the Mid-West Hospital Campaign Group, demands the upgrading of the three hospitals to model 3 as well as the reopening of the emergency departments. It was before the joint committee on 13 October 2022. There has...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: To the best of my knowledge, the agreement is still in place and patients are diverted from Limerick to Ennis and Nenagh if they are deemed suitable.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: That is agreed. Petition No. 1 of 2023 seeks immediate financial relief for autistic children whose families are paying privately for assessments and therapies; proper oversight and an external complaints system for the HSE; and a full review of carer's allowance and how carers are viewed. It was submitted by Mr. Mark Darmody on behalf of Ms Cara Darmody. The petitioner advises that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: As I have said previously, this is a crazy situation. The Department recognises it is responsible for speech and language therapy and it pays for assessments that it organises. If, however, a family is concerned and they go, source it and pay for themselves, they are not reimbursed. That is a crazy situation that needs to change. The situation of carers has been raised. The mother of this...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Next is petition No. 5 of 2023, "Create a Turkish family scheme visa for people who have been affected by or become homeless due to the earthquake", from Mr. Mahsun Aydogan. This petition relates to a request that Ireland create a new temporary visa scheme for the affected families of Turkish residents in Ireland to join them for a period. The petitions case manager corresponded with Ms...